Imogen Cunningham

“I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.”

“I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.”

“Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.”

“I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.”

“When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.”

“Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.”

“A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?”

“I don't resent anything.”

“I don't know what love means.”

“When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.”